A53688:1444
The Doctrine of the Saints' Perseverance
The doctrine of the saints perseverance, explained and confirmed, or, The certain permanency of their 1. acceptation with God & 2. sanctification from God manifested & proved from the 1. eternal principles 2. effectual causes 3. external means thereof ... vindicated in a full answer to the discourse of Mr. John Goodwin against it, in his book entitled Redemption redeemed : with some digressions concerning 1. the immediate effects of the death of Christ ... : with a discourse touching the epistles of Ignatius, the Episcopacy in them asserted, and some animadversions on Dr. H.H. his dissertations on that subject / by John Owen ...The doctrine of the saints perseverance, explained and confirmed, or, The certain permanency of their 1. acceptation with God & 2. sanctification from God manifested & proved from the 1. eternal principles 2. effectuall causes 3. externall meanes thereof ... vindicated in a full answer to the discourse of Mr. John Goodwin against it, in his book entituled Redemption redeemed : with some degressions concerning 1. the immediate effects of the death of Christ ... : with a discourse touching the epistles of Ignatius, the Episcopacy in them asserted, and some animadversions on Dr. H.H. his dissertations on that subject / by John Owen ...
London: printed by Leon. Lichfield, 1654
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In the seventeenth Section, somewhat is attempted as to Promises,1 answerable to what hath been done concerning Exhortations and Threatenings; the words used to this end are many, the sum is, That the use of Promises in stirring men up to Obedience, is solely in the proposal of a good thing, or good things to them to whom the Promises are made which they may attain, or come short off. ⟨p. 303⟩Now if men are assured as this Doctrine supposeth they may be, that they shall attain the end whether they use the means or no, how can they possibly be incited by the Promises to the use of means proposed for the enjoyment of the end promised: That this is the substance of his Discourse, I presume himself will confess, and it being the winding up of a tedious Argument, I shall briefly manifest its usefulness, and lay it aside. I say then,
In the seventeenth Section, somwhat is attempted as to Promises,1 answerable to what hath been done concerning Exhortations and Threatnings; the words used to this end are many, the summe is, That the use of Promises in stirring men up to Obedience, is solely in the proposall of a good thing, or good things to them to whom the Promises are made which they may attaine, or come short off. ⟨p. 303⟩Now if men are assured as this Doctrine supposeth they may be, that they shall atttaine the end whether they use the meanes or no, how can they possibly be incited by the Promises to the use of meanes proposed for the injoyment of the end promised: That this is the substance of his Discourse, I presume himselfe will confesse, and it being the winding up of a tedious Argument, I shall briefely manifest its usefullnesse, and lay it aside. I say then,
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